It is neat that you collected whole genome data to develop your microsatellite primers, since you can put those data to additional uses. I am curious if you tried any of the other microsatellite DNA primers that have been developed for Athene cunicularia (Korfanta et al., 2002; Faircloth et al., 2010; Macías-Duarte et al., 2010).

Even though there is a low likelihood that these other loci ove...